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The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of about 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans and their enslaved African Americans [3] within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government.
Before 1843 explorers give no reference to this subdivision. The band appeared to number 800 people. At the usual average of seven people per lodge, that would make about 115 lodges (tepees when unoccupied), equating to 230 warriors at the norm of two per lodge.
Taoapa (A band of Mdewakanton Sioux, formerly living on the Minnesota River in the present Scott co., Minn., and hunting between it and the Mississippi. Their village, generally known as Shakopee's Village , or Little Six's Village, from the chief of the band, was on the left bank of the river and the cemetery on the opposite side in 1835.) [ 8 ]
The Indian removal was the United States government's policy of ethnic cleansing through the forced displacement of self-governing tribes of American Indians from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River—specifically, to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma), which ...
The legislation at §742 specified that the included bands were the Shivwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and Indian Peaks Bands of the Paiute Indian Tribe (omitting the Cedar Band). [119] As with other termination agreements, the Act provided for termination of federal trusts and distribution of tribal lands to individuals or a tribally organized entity.
The Cortina Rancheria is an Indian reservation in Colusa County, California, at an elevation of 1,312 feet (400 m). The rancheria is 640 acres large in area. [1] It is located about 70 miles northwest of Sacramento [1] and 15 miles west of Arbuckle, California. As of the 2010 Census the population was 21. [5]
While searching for Antonga Black Hawk, the Mormon militia came upon a band of Ute Indians. Thinking they were part of Black Hawk's band, they attacked them. They killed 10 men and took the women and children captive. After the women and children tried to escape, the militia shot them too. 10 men + unknown women and children [267] 1865
Eagle Medicine Band of Cherokee Indians, also in Pennsylvania [117] New Jersey Sand Hill Band of Indians (also known as Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians or Sand Hill Band of Indians). [26] [46] Letter of Intent to Petition 01/09/2007. [27] Osprey Band of Free Cherokees [25] [30] [31] [32] [46] Powhatan Renape Nation, Rancocas, NJ ...